Desmolicious wrote:
Excellent article, thanks for linking.
The fact that she didn't use a light meter....
She used the back of her hand like an incident light meter: she'd hold up her hand by her subject's face, look at the light on it, and judge exposure that way.
That kind of minimalism inspires me, although I'm a complete failure at it.
Her approach also reminds me of Jack LaLanne, the TV fitness guru of the 1960s, who died of pneumonia at age 96. His eating habits were amazingly minimalist and minimal, especially in light of his rigorous daily exercise routine. From his obituary in the NY Times:
At 60 he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman’s Wharf handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat. At 70, handcuffed and shackled again, he towed 70 boats, carrying a total of 70 people, a mile and a half through Long Beach Harbor.
He ate two meals a day and shunned snacks.
Breakfast, following his morning workout, usually included several hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk and seasonal fruit. For dinner he took his wife, Elaine, to restaurants that knew what he wanted: a salad with raw vegetables and egg whites along with fish — often salmon — and a mixture of red and white wine. He sometimes allowed himself a roast turkey sandwich, but never a cup of coffee.